Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

David Masover
2006-08-09T15:48:39Z

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> Yes, it looks like a business of node plugin, but AFAIK, you
>>> objected against such checks:
>> Did I really? Well, I think that allowing users to choose whether to
>> checksum or not is a reasonable thing to allow them. I personally would
>> skip the checksum on my computer, but others....
>>
>> It could be a useful mkfs option....
>
> It should preferably a runtime tunable variable, at best even
> per-superblock and (overriding the sb setting), per-file.

Sounds almost exactly like a plugin. And yes, that would be the way to
do it, especially considering some files will already have internal
consistency checking -- just as we should allow direct disk IO to some
files (no journaling) when the files in question are databases that do
their own journaling.